Date 2020-04-10
Category Lyrics, Music Video, New Music
There has been a horrifying rise in the number of school shootings in the United States in recent years. When it was announced that XXXTentacion and Lil Wayne’s song “School Shooters” would be getting a new music video, fans of the late Florida rapper were excited to see what would come of it. Despite his controversial past, XXXTentacion was outspoken in his fight against bullying in the months leading to his death.
The Bad Vibes Forever cut has officially been granted a video release, directed by Elf Rivera, and it is dedicated to all those who lost their lives in the Parkland shooting.
“School Shooters” begins with a message for Anthony Borges and the seventeen victims of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. A photo of XXXTentacion with Borges is shown before the video begins, showing a bullying scene in the school bathroom. A gang of boys makes fun of a teenager who voices that he is fed up with them constantly picking on him.
The short film features terrifying scenes of children running for their lives, police combatting the situation with gunfire of their own, and Lil Wayne rapping on top of a cop car. It ends with an important message about the effects of bullying.
XXXTentacion – School Shooters (ft. Lil Wayne) (prod. Jasper Sheff & John Cunningham)
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[Chorus: XXXTENTACION]
I drink blood of school shooters
Slit throat, loose screws get fucked up
Hang his ass from flagpoles with sad souls
The innocent, who the fuck’s protecting us?
Boy, you better buckle up ’cause I got questions for you fucks, I’ve had enough
[Verse: Lil Wayne]
Triple X, I just popped a triple X, uh
A school shooter, I just need attention, yeah, uh
Tell the principal, I ain’t got no principles
I don’t need no school, I got internet, yeah
Kids at school calling me different, yeah
So I’m tryna work on my differences, yeah
Cool kids at school smoke bigarettes
Teens with nicotine or with liquor breath
Or the semi-TEC at school, what’s the bigger threat?
Intellect mixed with inner stress
That’s a recipe for disaster
If you don’t believe me, go ask any chef
School shooter, I just need mental help
Saved by the bell, I can’t hear the bell
Give me bad grades, I don’t give a F
Get in front of my classmates and kill myself
[Chorus: XXXTENTACION]
I drink blood of school shooters
Slit throat, loose screws get fucked up
Hang his ass from flagpoles with sad souls
The innocent, who the fuck’s protecting us?
Boy, you better buckle up ’cause I got questions for you fucks, I’ve had enough
[Outro: XXXTENTACION & Lil Wayne]
Ah, I got a question, where was protection?
How did this happen? Can we go backwards? (Can we go backwards? Can we go backwards? Can we go backwards?)
I got a question
I got a question, I got a question, shooter
School shooter, I taught ’em a lesson
Yeah